The Acagamic

It is crys­tal ball time again. This time we are talk­ing about the future of edu­ca­tion. The claim: Game design­ers = Teachers. The pre­sen­ter: Tim Hart. An instruc­tional or learn­ing tech­nol­o­gist at the University of Maine in the USA. His pre­sen­ta­tion (with the title prob­a­bly some­what inspired by Steven Johnson’s book “Everything Good is Bad [...]

I recently fin­ished writ­ing my Master’s the­sis (German Diplomarbeit) on “Facilitating the Education of Game Development”. It has taken me half a year to gather infor­ma­tion from game indus­try sources (such as Bob Bates, Bruce Shelley, Jochen Hamma, or David A. Smith), aca­d­e­mic papers and game devel­op­ment books to come up with a small guide for a video [...]